Afghan American 3.9/140 LSAT.. Discouraged

I got my Feb 2011 score last night and became extremely depressed and discouraged. I have never been a good standardized test taker but a 140?!! So discouraged. Should I apply to some 3-4th tier schools anyways? I'm located in NYC and was hoping to get into hofstra or STJ law. Will they consider that I'm a minority?

You probably need to retake the test if you want to go to law school. There are some schools that weigh the GPA heavier, but with a 140 you have plenty of room for improvement. And, with your great GPA and minority status, you can be in an excellent school if you get into the mid-high 150's.

^ Study hard, take a prep course and do all the work they suggest and more and re-take. I suspect that the more traditional big-box prep courses (like kaplan) are probably the best suited for lower scorers but I don't have exposure to all of them.